Northstar Ventures

Northstar Ventures Limited is a venture capital firm established in 2004 and based in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom. The firm specializes in both direct and fund of fund investments, targeting early-stage to growth-stage companies across various sectors, including digital media, clean technology, healthcare, and telecommunications. Northstar Ventures primarily focuses on investments within the United Kingdom, particularly in the North East of England, including County Durham, Northumberland, and Tyne and Wear. The firm typically invests between £0.02 million and £0.75 million, with a preference for businesses that have a turnover of up to €50 million. Additionally, Northstar Ventures manages funds such as the North East Social Investment Fund, which supports social enterprises in the region. With a commitment to fostering high-growth, scalable businesses, Northstar Ventures seeks to partner with strong teams and innovative ideas that can drive substantial growth.

Khadija Ashfaq

Investor

Paul Barrett

Investor

Richard Charnley

Investment Director

Alison Collins

Investor

Alasdair Greig

Director

Thomas O'Neill

Investment Manager

Hekla Goodman

Investment Manager

Ian Richards

Director

Naomi Allen Seales

Investment Manager

Past deals in Search Engine

Haystack

Convertible Note in 2019
Built for techies who are fed up with the age-old recruitment approach, Haystack is a data insights and careers marketplace that uncovers opportunities based on your interests, values and tech stack.

Screach

Seed Round in 2016
Screenreach Interactive develops the Screach Interactivity platform, which allows users to engage with various content forms, including digital signage, TV, radio, and print, through the Screach smart device app. The platform offers an open environment, enabling creatives and developers to design unique experiences using ScreachML, a custom language. Screach not only facilitates interactions between advertisers and consumers, enhancing engagement and revenue generation, but it also serves as a social and location-based network that transforms everyday activities into interactive experiences. Additionally, Screach provides live streaming and advertising applications for sports content, helping commercial venues distribute a wider range of live and on-demand programming. This integration supports business-to-business operations by offering digital signage solutions and flexible commercial terms in a market increasingly shifting towards streaming services.

Screach

Seed Round in 2016
Screenreach Interactive develops the Screach Interactivity platform, which allows users to engage with various content forms, including digital signage, TV, radio, and print, through the Screach smart device app. The platform offers an open environment, enabling creatives and developers to design unique experiences using ScreachML, a custom language. Screach not only facilitates interactions between advertisers and consumers, enhancing engagement and revenue generation, but it also serves as a social and location-based network that transforms everyday activities into interactive experiences. Additionally, Screach provides live streaming and advertising applications for sports content, helping commercial venues distribute a wider range of live and on-demand programming. This integration supports business-to-business operations by offering digital signage solutions and flexible commercial terms in a market increasingly shifting towards streaming services.

Screach

Seed Round in 2016
Screenreach Interactive develops the Screach Interactivity platform, which allows users to engage with various content forms, including digital signage, TV, radio, and print, through the Screach smart device app. The platform offers an open environment, enabling creatives and developers to design unique experiences using ScreachML, a custom language. Screach not only facilitates interactions between advertisers and consumers, enhancing engagement and revenue generation, but it also serves as a social and location-based network that transforms everyday activities into interactive experiences. Additionally, Screach provides live streaming and advertising applications for sports content, helping commercial venues distribute a wider range of live and on-demand programming. This integration supports business-to-business operations by offering digital signage solutions and flexible commercial terms in a market increasingly shifting towards streaming services.

iResources

Seed Round in 2015
iResources is a digital marketing agency based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, specializing in e-commerce development and digital strategy. Founded in January 2010 by Jon Leighton, the agency offers a range of online marketing services, including search engine optimization, pay-per-click advertising, and web design. iResources aims to streamline the digital marketing process by providing a cohesive platform that consolidates multiple data sources, thus eliminating the need for numerous tabs or complicated spreadsheets. This integrated approach enables businesses to effectively manage their online presence and optimize their marketing efforts.

Screach

Seed Round in 2015
Screenreach Interactive develops the Screach Interactivity platform, which allows users to engage with various content forms, including digital signage, TV, radio, and print, through the Screach smart device app. The platform offers an open environment, enabling creatives and developers to design unique experiences using ScreachML, a custom language. Screach not only facilitates interactions between advertisers and consumers, enhancing engagement and revenue generation, but it also serves as a social and location-based network that transforms everyday activities into interactive experiences. Additionally, Screach provides live streaming and advertising applications for sports content, helping commercial venues distribute a wider range of live and on-demand programming. This integration supports business-to-business operations by offering digital signage solutions and flexible commercial terms in a market increasingly shifting towards streaming services.

Screach

Seed Round in 2015
Screenreach Interactive develops the Screach Interactivity platform, which allows users to engage with various content forms, including digital signage, TV, radio, and print, through the Screach smart device app. The platform offers an open environment, enabling creatives and developers to design unique experiences using ScreachML, a custom language. Screach not only facilitates interactions between advertisers and consumers, enhancing engagement and revenue generation, but it also serves as a social and location-based network that transforms everyday activities into interactive experiences. Additionally, Screach provides live streaming and advertising applications for sports content, helping commercial venues distribute a wider range of live and on-demand programming. This integration supports business-to-business operations by offering digital signage solutions and flexible commercial terms in a market increasingly shifting towards streaming services.

Sourcely

Seed Round in 2015
Sourcely offers its users with e-textbooks and academic journals that allows students to rent study material content for shorter period of time. Sourcely was founded in 2015 by Fraser Williams.

SimpliDrive

Seed Round in 2015
SimpliDrive

See-R

Seed Round in 2015
See-R is a user friendly environment to generate free high-quality forecasts quickly and automatically.

Screach

Seed Round in 2015
Screenreach Interactive develops the Screach Interactivity platform, which allows users to engage with various content forms, including digital signage, TV, radio, and print, through the Screach smart device app. The platform offers an open environment, enabling creatives and developers to design unique experiences using ScreachML, a custom language. Screach not only facilitates interactions between advertisers and consumers, enhancing engagement and revenue generation, but it also serves as a social and location-based network that transforms everyday activities into interactive experiences. Additionally, Screach provides live streaming and advertising applications for sports content, helping commercial venues distribute a wider range of live and on-demand programming. This integration supports business-to-business operations by offering digital signage solutions and flexible commercial terms in a market increasingly shifting towards streaming services.

VEO

Seed Round in 2015
VEO

skignz

Non Equity Assistance in 2015
Skignz is a developer of a geolocation-based augmented reality platform that allows users to interact with digital information in an engaging and non-intrusive manner. The platform provides a personalized augmented reality experience, enabling clients to place interactive digital content at various locations worldwide, accessible via mobile devices. Skignz aims to enhance user engagement with the places, people, and things they care about by offering a simple and enjoyable interface. Additionally, the company provides a free app while also catering to commercial interests through an API, making its innovative technology available for broader applications.

Screach

Seed Round in 2014
Screenreach Interactive develops the Screach Interactivity platform, which allows users to engage with various content forms, including digital signage, TV, radio, and print, through the Screach smart device app. The platform offers an open environment, enabling creatives and developers to design unique experiences using ScreachML, a custom language. Screach not only facilitates interactions between advertisers and consumers, enhancing engagement and revenue generation, but it also serves as a social and location-based network that transforms everyday activities into interactive experiences. Additionally, Screach provides live streaming and advertising applications for sports content, helping commercial venues distribute a wider range of live and on-demand programming. This integration supports business-to-business operations by offering digital signage solutions and flexible commercial terms in a market increasingly shifting towards streaming services.

iResources

Seed Round in 2014
iResources is a digital marketing agency based in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, specializing in e-commerce development and digital strategy. Founded in January 2010 by Jon Leighton, the agency offers a range of online marketing services, including search engine optimization, pay-per-click advertising, and web design. iResources aims to streamline the digital marketing process by providing a cohesive platform that consolidates multiple data sources, thus eliminating the need for numerous tabs or complicated spreadsheets. This integrated approach enables businesses to effectively manage their online presence and optimize their marketing efforts.

Screach

Seed Round in 2014
Screenreach Interactive develops the Screach Interactivity platform, which allows users to engage with various content forms, including digital signage, TV, radio, and print, through the Screach smart device app. The platform offers an open environment, enabling creatives and developers to design unique experiences using ScreachML, a custom language. Screach not only facilitates interactions between advertisers and consumers, enhancing engagement and revenue generation, but it also serves as a social and location-based network that transforms everyday activities into interactive experiences. Additionally, Screach provides live streaming and advertising applications for sports content, helping commercial venues distribute a wider range of live and on-demand programming. This integration supports business-to-business operations by offering digital signage solutions and flexible commercial terms in a market increasingly shifting towards streaming services.

Screach

Seed Round in 2014
Screenreach Interactive develops the Screach Interactivity platform, which allows users to engage with various content forms, including digital signage, TV, radio, and print, through the Screach smart device app. The platform offers an open environment, enabling creatives and developers to design unique experiences using ScreachML, a custom language. Screach not only facilitates interactions between advertisers and consumers, enhancing engagement and revenue generation, but it also serves as a social and location-based network that transforms everyday activities into interactive experiences. Additionally, Screach provides live streaming and advertising applications for sports content, helping commercial venues distribute a wider range of live and on-demand programming. This integration supports business-to-business operations by offering digital signage solutions and flexible commercial terms in a market increasingly shifting towards streaming services.

Screach

Seed Round in 2014
Screenreach Interactive develops the Screach Interactivity platform, which allows users to engage with various content forms, including digital signage, TV, radio, and print, through the Screach smart device app. The platform offers an open environment, enabling creatives and developers to design unique experiences using ScreachML, a custom language. Screach not only facilitates interactions between advertisers and consumers, enhancing engagement and revenue generation, but it also serves as a social and location-based network that transforms everyday activities into interactive experiences. Additionally, Screach provides live streaming and advertising applications for sports content, helping commercial venues distribute a wider range of live and on-demand programming. This integration supports business-to-business operations by offering digital signage solutions and flexible commercial terms in a market increasingly shifting towards streaming services.

I-Spy Digital

Seed Round in 2014
I-Spy Digital

Wind Drive

Seed Round in 2013
Wind Drive

Twinklr

Seed Round in 2013
Twinklr, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe of Facebook Facebook is the place where approximately a billion users and thousands of media brands mingle. How do people find the exact information that they’re looking for in this vast maze of complicated connections? Do you feel like you are missing out on something when exploring Facebook with limited information and friends? <Discover your star> Before embarking on your travels, you need to find or create your own star in the Facebook Universe. After you select five current interests, Twinklr will guide you to a new or existing star made from your selected interests. There you can meet new friends who have same interests as you. It is also easy to start a conversation with others who live on different stars but have a common interest. <Explore the Universe of Facebook> Now once you’re ready to venture out and explore the universe, you will find yourself amongst thousands of stars created from others’ interests. Nearby stars may contain information of immediate interest to you. You can find out simply by visiting a star and meeting the new friends and viewing the new information. Based on your current interests, Twinklr will give you a chance to open your eyes to all new experiences and expand the boundaries of your interests. You will discover entirely new interests and people that you are unaware of but will like immediately once you are introduced. With this new way of searching, you can uncover a lot of valuable information that was previously buried and inaccessible to the keyboard-centric search style of current search engines (e.g. Google, Yahoo, Bing etc.). < SUPERFAN in the Universe> Every brand and media page has a lot of real fans. We call them 'SUPERFAN' on Twinklr. How to discover superfans on facebook page? We helps you can discover superfans on theirs star. Superfans promote your brand, share your brand on facebook via twinklr and be a consumer. Twinklr helps you enter new markets and reach new target audiences. This is an effective way to surprise your customers and to attract new ones. <Big data meets Big Bang> In the Twinklr universe, the big bang will start once the accumulated information reaches a critical mass. The Big Bang will re-organize the universe in a way that helps users easily keep track of people’s trends , how their interests change, and also suggestions such as where they should go or eat. For businesses, you can find business opportunities and use this as a marketing tool to engage your customers and enhance your brand. We invite you to join Twinklr as a new user and explore the Twinklr universe.

Audacious

Seed Round in 2013
Audacious, a Middlesbrough, UK-based start up developer of a new application that allows users to personalize their online search results

I-Spy Digital

Seed Round in 2013
I-Spy Digital

Screach

Seed Round in 2013
Screenreach Interactive develops the Screach Interactivity platform, which allows users to engage with various content forms, including digital signage, TV, radio, and print, through the Screach smart device app. The platform offers an open environment, enabling creatives and developers to design unique experiences using ScreachML, a custom language. Screach not only facilitates interactions between advertisers and consumers, enhancing engagement and revenue generation, but it also serves as a social and location-based network that transforms everyday activities into interactive experiences. Additionally, Screach provides live streaming and advertising applications for sports content, helping commercial venues distribute a wider range of live and on-demand programming. This integration supports business-to-business operations by offering digital signage solutions and flexible commercial terms in a market increasingly shifting towards streaming services.

GeckoLabs

Seed Round in 2012
Today, GeckoEngage offers two products — both still focused around freeing HigherEd teams to focus on high-impact activities. Institutions can now communicate with students one-to-one, and at scale, with our AI-powered conversational messaging platform, Chat. Our clients consolidate all their messaging channels into a single, team-managed inbox. And then, using our customizable bots, they capture leads, answer questions and register event attendees on autopilot, 24/7. Our visit experience platform enables schools to create sophisticated, multi-channel event playbooks, designed to take students from curious inquirers through to enrolled students. Combining key pre-event, on-the-day and post-event activities within a single platform showcases your school as a modern, responsive institution whilst providing your Admissions team with powerful tools to run streamlined, impactful events.

Audacious

Seed Round in 2012
Audacious, a Middlesbrough, UK-based start up developer of a new application that allows users to personalize their online search results

Esellution

Seed Round in 2012
eSellution software is the leading multi-channel ecommerce solution, allowing potential buyers to find your products on major online entities such as eBay, Facebook and Amazon Marketplace, dramatically increasing your potential market reach by listing your items to millions of potential consumers. The eSellution software is able to scale from small hobbyist ecommerce websites to large Fortune 500 companies.

Audacious

Seed Round in 2011
Audacious, a Middlesbrough, UK-based start up developer of a new application that allows users to personalize their online search results

Fotospin

Seed Round in 2011
Fotospin

Streamline Tools

Seed Round in 2011
Streamline Tools

Audacious

Seed Round in 2011
Audacious, a Middlesbrough, UK-based start up developer of a new application that allows users to personalize their online search results

CruiseCompare

Seed Round in 2011
CruiseCompare is the UK's first cruise comparison site, designed to help users find the best prices for their next cruise holiday. The platform allows customers to compare cruise deals from multiple agents in real time, providing a user-friendly interface that simplifies the search process. By collaborating with major cruise agents, CruiseCompare offers a wide range of options, including transatlantic, Mediterranean, Caribbean, luxury, and mini-cruises. Users can easily navigate the site to view various deals and are directed to the respective agents to complete their bookings, effectively saving time and ensuring they secure the best available prices for their travel plans.

Screach

Seed Round in 2011
Screenreach Interactive develops the Screach Interactivity platform, which allows users to engage with various content forms, including digital signage, TV, radio, and print, through the Screach smart device app. The platform offers an open environment, enabling creatives and developers to design unique experiences using ScreachML, a custom language. Screach not only facilitates interactions between advertisers and consumers, enhancing engagement and revenue generation, but it also serves as a social and location-based network that transforms everyday activities into interactive experiences. Additionally, Screach provides live streaming and advertising applications for sports content, helping commercial venues distribute a wider range of live and on-demand programming. This integration supports business-to-business operations by offering digital signage solutions and flexible commercial terms in a market increasingly shifting towards streaming services.

Tagorize

Seed Round in 2010
Advertag is a jobs listing site using Tagorize at its core. Using Tagorize, we can offer a better user experience, more accurate search and conversion rates over five times better than other recruitment sites..

Streamline Tools

Seed Round in 2010
Streamline Tools

Graviton Lite

Seed Round in 2010
Graviton Lite
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